May 20, 2020
Dear Senator McConnell;
The Associated Press reported this morning that Donald Trump threatened to withhold COVID-19 relief funding because Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) did something Trump believes might hurt his chance to be re-elected in November.
Trump’s made his threat by tweet, saying, “Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”
Since no president in the history of America has ever thought it would be a good idea to threaten the health and lives of millions of citizens for any reason, much less a perceived political risk, any lucid person would ask the following questions:
- Which law, federal or state, does Trump think prevents the State of Michigan from sending absentee ballots ahead of any election?
- What evidence does Trump have to confirm that sending absentee ballots before an election provokes individuals to commit voter fraud?
- Why wouldn’t Trump know that Michigan mailed “absentee ballot applications to all 7.7 million registered voters for the August primary and November” elections?
- What on earth could make Donald Trump think that it would be appropriate, as president of the United States, to threaten to punish the good people of Michigan who’ve been walloped by the coronavirus pandemic, because their Secretary of State did something Trump doesn’t like?
- Should thoughtful voters assume that your unwillingness to publicly condemn Trump’s threat to cruelly put millions of innocent human beings at risk of suffering the horrific effects of COVID-19, including the possibility of death, confirms your support for this kind of brutishness?
Your answer to the final question will soon be self-evident because, one way or another, we’ll hear it.
Won’t we?
Sincerely,
Millions of thinking voters